long john martin in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. of the american public and congress beginning to understand this nation's full use of drones is the drone program in for a major change now the secret's out also after coming under enormous pressure from religious groups the boy scouts of america have decided to delay their vote on allowing gays to be members of the organization scouts even have the right to openly discriminate and later in the show we'll have a your take my take it live segment your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment live on the air. you need to know this given the choice between supporting the president or supporting

the nation's constitution the constitution comes first in fact the president's oath of office requires him to put a first two it's interesting to watch how the democratic party and supporters of president obama have been split apart by the release of his policies and legal rationales for killing american citizens among others drones without the due process protections of the right to a trial by jury of your peers guaranteed in the constitution on one side and those who argue that we're at war and therefore americans have joined the others saw it are now enemy combatants and should be treated like any other dangerous enemy during time of war they should be killed this is the george w. bush argument and the strength of it is the memory of nine eleven and the enduring belief in the minds of many americans that nine eleven was an act of war in and of itself a modern day pearl harbor and therefore we're justified in pursuing that war until the enemy is either dead or surrenders the first weaknesses. that argument however

is that our constitution and law that we've signed on to through numerous un and other treaties very clearly describes what a war is and what it isn't and how it's different from what you would call a crime pearl harbor had japan a country nine eleven had been ladan a criminal for a war we need a congressional declaration of war a nation declare that war against once that's happened there are very specific rules under which we conduct that war the last time our nation had a congressional declaration of war legally invoking our constitutional war powers is in one hundred forty one and that war ended forty five which strengthens the argument the nine eleven was a crime not an act of war an argument that many democrats were making when bush was president that's that argument is supported by the way by our having arrested and now having on trial a nine eleven mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed and are having executed its funder

osama bin laden and are putting others on trial for their participation in or support of nine eleven which highlights the second weakness of the obama is fighting a war argument for democrats it's a naked continuation of the policies of george w. bush which so many consider both illegal immoral and fundamentally inconsistent with american and by the way international principles of governance and morality on the other side of this intro democratic party argument are those who say that obama is both the president and the head of the democratic party and as such deserve support of democrats and people who lean toward the democratic party that was the rationale used by many republicans who privately opposed many of george w. bush's policies particularly his drunken sailor spending policies and his war policies but kept their mouths shut until a democrat came into the white house and then they could start screaming about deficits. so today in simplified form many democrats and democratic party

supporters are faced with a pretty stark choice on this issue of using drones to kill american citizens without trial something that our democratic president has done three times that judge jury executioner do you support your party and its leader right or wrong or do you support the constitution. now for more on this i want to bring in mike papen tony an attorney and host of ring of fire radio mike welcome back to great john bolton crazy john ball below the top of the u.n. building off john ball says that this is consistent that the obama policy is a good thing and that it's been a consistent extension of the bush policies shouldn't john bolton support of it scare the hell out of the rest of us karl rove's support of that yesterday so that's really no surprise i think the reason that this is going down so easy for so many americans why you have americans say of course we just need to use drones at

every chance we get to assassinate people is because the rest of the story hasn't been thought out how do we prevent terror groups or drug cartels or insane misfits from using drones against the united states on united states soil drones in enemy hands are going to be the headlines and how they attacked the u.s. with those drones that's going to be the headlines in about two years because the arms industrial complex will never pass up the opportunity to sell their two foot long you know three pound killing machines to saudi princes who are then going to deliver them to the same kind of saudi terrorist freaks who bombed the twin twin towers so it's almost like we're saying this is happening over there in there's been no discussion even that the media is not asking the question our congressmen are not asking the questions you've got america's largest weapons manufacturer going to be looking for new and bigger more creative arms sales opportunities

because the military budgets gotten ready to be cut so they're going to look at places like asia and middle east and africa and they're going to sell more drones than they can produce and for us to think that some cat sitting three miles off shore in a boat can't deliver or first of all can't get his hands on one. these drones when you have you've got raytheon and northrop and boeing selling them to beat the band is ridiculous but the question is not even be imposed tom but it's not just going to be raytheon and northrop grumman making them miss is like the a k forty seven you know the collision off it was it wasn't made in the united states it's like this this is happening all over the world my my other concern beyond that is the legal precedent that we're establishing as arguably the most powerful nation in the world certainly the largest you know militarily what happens and therefore as the

one who seems to be defining international norms and laws what happens when mexico decides to send armed drones over phoenix looking for mexican drug lords who are mexican nationals or when china decides to send armed drones over san francisco or d.c. to take out chinese dissidents or a rand is sized to go after the virus makers that took down their centrifuges and discovers that they're living in manhattan or iceland decides to go after bank stirrers i mean are we supposed to just sit around and quietly watch as entire city blocks of blown up in the united states and innocent civilians are killed because it's the logical continuation of a policy that we started there are no rules of the road here right now and understand that we have the disc in this discussion there are zero rules of the road the f.a.a. has been pressured by this administration to push through the right to use drones for everybody for example a corporation can own

a drone and they can spy on activists they can spy on labor they can spy on competitors paparazzi tom can use a drone and park it in your backyard if they want for four days because there are no rules here and this president has failed to talk about it because he's so he's so hypnotized by the military industrial complex he saw him in. by the idea that the only way we can make america secure is with drones and so as we see problems elevating the parts of the country and as we see our iraq are on the on the ground occupation diminishing around the around the world what we're going to see is we're going to see the use of drones more and more now you asked the question about the constitutional issue there is no fourth. consideration has been thrown out the door fourteenth amendment out the door fifth amendment out the door in this thing that they call the authorization for use of military force is a joke it was almost like they were it was written by

a cabal of tenth graders who never took a civics class to understand that there's something fundamental about things like the fourth the minute the fifth amendment the fourteenth amendment so that's where we are and we have a president and if democrats don't have enough damn sense to criticize this president about where this is headed then we are a lost party tom whelan and that's the obvious question is why are so many democrats you know actually not even let me do the not even phrase as a question just like to get your thoughts on it i've been watching this on my own message boards of tom arbonne dot com over democratic underground some of the more prominent message boards where where democrats and progressives you know are debating these issues and there is clearly a faction of he's my president and i support him even if i disagree with his policies others who are saying hey you know we got to keep ourselves safe and then others saying the best way to support a president is to call him out when he's wrong and help him make it right i mean you know what are your thoughts on this kind of party warfare i get i get e-mails

from these dimwits every day every time i go on the air and i say you know obama can do better we can we can be better we can have better moral highground we can do things like go after wall street you can be a president that leads this country instead of reacting to everything that happens . among his close circle listen to this if you listen closely in the next. few weeks you're going to hear them talking about two cases that they feel justifies everything they're doing one is hamdan versus rumsfeld the other was ham i think it's hamdi versus rumsfeld both of those cases stand for the proposition that at best that millet the militants don't deserve all the due process than an american citizen deserves that doesn't give us the right to go kill him though there is nothing that gives this president the right to go kill americans on foreign soil the authorization for military for use of military force is almost

a joke if you look at it it's so lose really that says any high level official is that the president is that the cia director is that a political advisor can go after anyone an american citizen a political militant want any foreign soil is that mexico is it canada hell it could be texas or mississippi for all i know is long as there is an imminent threat no definition to any of this stuff at all and they talk about these things called the law of war principles have you looked at that what is it necessity proportionality distinction and humanity then it's a joke that listen what anybody who's gone to law school would look at that entire bill and say it's a loser or a garbage it's a loser a garbled up language and this president is a constitutional law professor and he knows what the flaws are but he says i'm going to buy into the military complex anyway because he just like he did on wall

street have got thirty seconds to you do you see a change and if so what he thinks going to bring it. i don't see any change listen i don't see any change until we find some cat right across the border of mexico that takes one of these three pound bombs as you point out takes one of these drones and it lands on american soil in kills american citizens because americans never look at it like it's about them i'm not going to be affected by this this doesn't affect me it's just over there in the desert seven eight hundred seventy eight thousand miles away from here now so that's that's the true reality here i think you've nailed it mike papen tonio as always thank you you thank. coming up caving to pressure from various religious groups and organizations especially the mormons the boy scouts of america delayed it's a vote yesterday to allow gays to openly serve as scouts and leaders do the scouts have the right to openly discriminate and deny gays from a part of their or as they should.

let me let me as one wouldn't let me ask you a question from. here on this network is what we're having a debate we have our knives out. to do this right what's the best thing never get here in a situation where b. and i don't even talk about the name and we. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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in screwed news so much for the boy scouts entering the twenty first century a vote on wednesday to allow gays to openly serve as scouts and leaders was delayed under pressure from religious groups and anti-gay voices within the scouts response the founder of the organization scouts for equality said the boy scouts quote came to those who argue that their ideas about homosexuality trump basic scouting values of kindness courtesy and bravery and quote in a super bowl saturday interview president obama urged the boy scouts to welcome gays into their organization. my attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life and. you know that the scouts are a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to.

opportunities and leadership that you know will serve people for the rest of their lives and i think that nobody should be barred for that but with wednesday's delayed vote it's likely to be an uphill battle for equality within the boy scouts joining me now is someone who thinks that's perfectly ok horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research morris welcome back thanks very mean on how is this not a civil rights issue well it clearly isn't a civil rights issue of the supreme court has already weighed in on this this is a right of association issue of the court had weighed in on civil rights issues back in what's a dred scott i mean just because the supreme court hasn't caught up with the times doesn't mean it's not real what's i mean i'm not talking about absolutely there's always a supreme how is this not a civil rights issue this is a fundamental issue of the right of association a fundamental issue or are you going to go now to the catholic church and tell them

that they're going to have to have women ordained every private organization has a fundamental right this whole american experiment is based on these ideas that there's a private sector and a public so you're saying that the boy scouts should be allowed to discriminate against gays for example as well as blacks the boy scouts absolutely ought to be able to say what ever limits they want you to have a mirabelli if they want to exclude african-americans it's not about a problem it's the question of what's the fundamental right when you decide that this cause is ok to breach the fundamental right then someone else will come along and build a side for another reason pride. clubs every group even the home you're fundamentally allowed to decide who you want to associate with and who you don't regardless of race gender religion absolutely that's what the whole private sector is about i'm going to tell you something when i look at this i see bullying taking place picking

on this organization and saying you know what we've got to burn the village down this is a perfect example of we've got to burn the village down to save it some two and a half million young boys benefit from this about forty percent of them black and latino instead of offering a competing alternative that gays or any other groups can participate in and try to draw those people away the desire here like there was to persecute it comes just as a boy does a straw man you not only know that there was a time when the boy scouts did not allow blacks into the boy scouts i will remember for some law was brought to them and they changed their policies absolutely not that's false it is not true that the boy scouts have been forced out by civic quite well but but but right across the board private organizations nazzaro cannot discriminate i start a race that is false you are misstating the law in america today i can have any

association group that i'd like to and i can exclude on the basis of race i can exclude on the basis of gender i can exclude on the basis of age i am allowed right now in america under the law to be able to do that to take this right away from the boy scouts threatens every single other groups rights to be able to do this and the point here is this was tried in philadelphia this was tried in chicago this was tried in san francisco what happens is that the pressure groups force the cities to withdraw their support from these organizations groups right now find themselves if they don't get this said to support they close their doors but if the. well if they do get for if they do get the city support then those anti-discrimination laws they have to operate under they may have to it's very simple you may have to the question so easy argument you're making is backwards horris you're saying they're totally private organizations therefore they can discriminate on the basis of race

or gender sexual preference bod you know they really get hurt because they're not totally private organizations because they take money from the city or the state they're supported by the city or the state and usually you can't have me both ways noto this is another example of how you progressives take liberty away from people and then use the example of that by having a city hall and if you support the war as in the city of philadelphia supports the boy scouts is because the city of philadelphia doesn't have the funds to try to do it directly that's the same with milwaukee the boys are though philadelphia the boy scouts know you know the boy scouts are providing a service that the cities and a lot of jurisdictions value they don't have the resources to duplicate that once thursday august over and i just emanation doesn't come into play so why was it the i mean that's what a nation the courts have not ruled that way actually there are still there is a government body involved philadelphia lost new jersey lost san francisco lost that's actually not the case ok so let's let's assume for a moment that your argument legally is right is not morally wrong it is not morally

wrong for an organization to decide who it wants to have its members it's a question of it will i join a group or will you don't want to group if you don't approve of the membership requirements that they have that but we absolutely shouldn't have asked for other groups being forced to do this thanks for having me oh thanks thanks for your perspective we'll be back. in about as the rest of the news just when you thought the right to war on women was over it's not republicans in michigan and it is to bill this week that would have required all went. to undergo highly invasive and potentially painful transvaginal ultrasounds before obtaining an abortion and if this bill sounds familiar it should it's because republicans across the u.s. introduced dozens of similar bills last year during the height of the right's war

on women that were aimed at influencing women's decisions on abortions the republican party has since sworn to reclaim the female vote and to become more female friendly bill in michigan was shut down earlier today by that state's speaker of the house the fact of the matter is that michigan republicans still tried to limit the rights of women when it comes to making their own health decisions so if you're a public in the great lakes state not get the memo about winning over the female vote here's the war on women still alive and well joining me now for more on this is sam bennett president and c.e.o. of the women's campaign fund and she should run sam welcome back to the program my pleasure thanks for joining us sam this bill may have been shot down today in michigan but you know what's going on in that state and this is state i was born and grew up in i'm just astounded this is what's going on in that state that it even got to to to the point where it could be taken down. well you wonder how we

got from right to work right to this day i think clearly it's almost as if the sharks smell the blood in the water they got right to work ramrod it through and now they're looking to accomplish other pieces of what's clearly a long term strategy to accomplish some long term agendas and clearly restricting women's access to reproductive choices and options even though the past election right showed that to be an electorally. unwise move the women of this nation stood up and were counted in this past election cycle but clearly they've got a list tom and they're going down the list right to work researching reproductive choice as an option to lord only knows what's next of obviously research and the right of people to vote changing the way we count the electoral college reducing taxes on corporations and billionaires you know throwing throwing a bone to the gun industry and but but back to the war on women there was

a general sense and i think we're seeing a little mini war going on in the republican party right now between the the karl rove let's go back to republican principles they don't want to go back to to eisenhower principles he was in favor of unions and things but but you know as least not the tea party or the anti tea party and the tea party and and yes seems to me that both the tea party republicans and the regular good old fashioned kind of sean hannity republicans or whatever you call them that they're all you know part of this war on women and they decided that that wasn't going to help them out and yet they're still doing it i i don't get it. this is just built into the republican party well i think massaging me in truth is built into our culture let's not beat around the bush on that one but i think you know you get in the habit of reflexively doing something and you keep doing it you know there's been

a long stretch where candidates both democratic and torching and republican have been making hay on restricting women's access to reproductive choices and options and but i think this past election cycle. not just women tom but the general election electorate put a line in the sand and said ok enough to knock it off. but i think you know they're just in the habit of doing this even though it's politically damning for them my whole if they keep going in this direction is the ground work is going to be laid for the upcoming congressional cycle again. quite frankly for there to be more seats gained by women and more seats again by folks that are going to support those issues that are very important to women and who knows maybe even laying the groundwork for very powerful twenty sixteen election if they can't break these bad habits of going down dark alleys where they're going to get beat up by the

electorate and they are. sam just a very just ten seconds or do you see this issue as energizing younger women. i think the results speak for it actually if we look at the outcomes of the past election cycle in two thousand and twelve that's exactly the pattern we saw we also saw a pattern of moderate republican it clearly for obama to have the win that he did claire mccaskill right. joe donnelly to have those wins what you had was a parallel phenomenon of republicans saying enough is enough and not voting party line it's great sam thanks again for being with us tonight from iceland thanks. crazy alert this sunday is the fifty fifth annual grammy awards on the network

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children america's future generations of leaders to read iran's highly destructive teachings i'll tell you in tonight's daily take. a lot of your take my take a live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call it two zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four now it's time for the first call or night mark in toronto canada hey mark what's up either to my issue i want to read i think it made the comment. before but it's a really huge generalization i realize but i think there's some truth. i sometimes get the feeling that republicans have a kind of way of thinking not just it's not just what they think i sometimes feel i have an argument with a republican about how to fry an egg or change a tire you know what i mean yeah drew westen wrote a book about this evolved called the political brain and well i think it seems like

there's not even a willingness to listen or to be flexible or to get out of the black and white simplistic kind of we have approaching things. to some extent you're right and mark thanks for the call and making that point there i think there's a couple of pieces to this first i mentioned drew westen wrote this book called the political brain and he found that actually liberals and conservatives not necessarily republicans and democrats because there are liberals and conservatives within both but liberals and conservatives literally have different brain wiring and then conservatives are more wired in a way that is me oriented and liberals are more wired in a way that is we oriented and those are basically the you know the core of the two worldviews as well and then you can really amp it up john dean wrote a brilliant book called conservatives without a conscience john dean who formally was the chief lawyer for richard nixon so i refer you to that brian in lake of the ozark missouri hey brian thanks for calling

with any money. brian you're on the air. brian is not on the air ok let's move along to hunter in fairfax virginia hey hunter what's up. thanks couple ideas for your system. and not the person that you go over. there on the line in. one percent of the world with prop one. and also what you want. how to thank you for your kind words. you've you've brought up the issue both of income tax and wealth tax and that's something that most americans that's a distinction most americans don't make i congratulate you on noticing the difference the income tax is taxing you know the amount of money that people make

every year you say ok as you make more and more money with a progressive income tax in any case your tax rate marginal tax rate goes up so the first ten thousand you make you know no taxes the next ten thousand certainly there and ultimately reaches a certain point a wealth tax is something we don't have in the united states many countries do but we don't and that's a tax where once a year you basically. present a balance sheet to the tax authorities saying ok the total net worth of what i have is you know five thousand dollars or five billion dollars and if it's above a certain threshold well taxes are almost always progressive if it's above you know a couple million one hundred million a billion whatever it may be then there's a tax on that and i am of the opinion and this is our no billionaires dot com campaign that anybody who has a wealth of over one billion dollars with a million dollars a thousand times of their wealth is over a billion dollars there should be one hundred percent wealth tax on the money over

that because if you can't live within a billion dollars you know come on give me a break ed in saginaw michigan hey ed what's up. hey look let's grab that billion dollars you. take the twelve days remaining seconds tick by. thirty two you hear you there you go. anyway these. seem like everybody is going to go if i were you i don't know what you know what i would say well you know what's going on is that they're cheap in their unregulated it's. the next it's the next a k forty seven or the next m sixteen or m. fifteen the next bushmaster there i think the point that mike pappa tonio made earlier is a really really important one and that is that pretty much anybody can buy one pretty much anyone can do anything they want with them most of them will probably be used for things like spying and stalking whether it's pop or razzi or whether

it's companies to gather intelligence other companies or governments but when they start getting weaponized look out and if we're going to establish the rules for the world by saying it's ok to go to a country with whom we're not at war and kill people that we decided to kill even without a judicial proceeding in the private or secret then i think. we are frankly putting ourselves at risk. tim in martin's bird west virginia tim what's up. yes monday is tim from martin spark you're here. yes and i i'd love like to state the i was convicted of growing marijuana and nine hundred eighty three and i can no longer get my rights back other than going through the president of the united states they have done away with the process and regard to tally a convicted felon can get is

a restoration of rights and i'd write to the president couple of times i get no response and and i feel is wrong and i don't know how how to go about trying to. return to normal society even though i work a pay taxes in the sixty eight years old now and can't vote feel like running. what can i do. tim there. there really should be and there probably is an organization working for the restoration of x. felons rights we give lip service to this new united states oh yeah they paid their their debt to society somebody paid their debt to society. you were convicted you served your time now you're out you paid your debt to society then come on back we should be welcoming people back to our society republicans have been working really

really hard for a long time to make sure the felons have in particular not the right to vote one of the reasons is because so many african-americans have been convicted mostly of petty or drug crimes but primes nonetheless cause them not to be allowed to vote as part of their voter suppression efforts and so you're coming up against that but if there are organizations out there that are working on this issue drop by our website of thom hartmann dot com on our to our daily topic blog and read that every day the one that's on the home page and put a link there and i'd like to get somebody on from one of those organizations it's a subject that needs more more media attention robert in burlington north carolina hey robert thank you for watching and a good evening how are you. this last week you were discussing the keystone the keystone pipeline going to texas correct my simple question. if your knowledge to the bush family does the bush family have anything to any

influence regarding this pipeline. but to your knowledge to the best my knowledge i have no idea. i was just thinking because of the you know there are you know. basically the oil. sort of. george bush senior's original oil company. i was really more of a cia front and you know to spy on castro and and and george w. you know his oil company it failed actually and it was supported by a saudi prince that there it's more of a myth that there are oil oil guys you know so that they could you know be texas kind of thing and to run for political office. you know but i don't know if they're going to need to stop chris in winnipeg canada a chris what's on your money when talk about boy scouts. yeah i just watched that segment it's always kind of a controversy all subject but i just had a couple of comments and maybe wanted you to comment yourself on the situation i'm

just wanting to say both basically you know with the boy scouts letting in these different minority groups whether it be women or gays or anything what we really have to recognize is what the whole purpose of the exercise was in the beginning was to bring up young boys into good men that are going to be good fathers and good citizens of the country you know a lot of this data comes out of a lot of you know if you look at the kinsey report in fact is a very good documentary called the kinsey syndrome. which is really worth watching but a lot of these ideas that there's one in ten. people in the population that are gay comes from a lot of this perverted. from the kinsey pay either original to originals i appreciate the point you're making the original kinsey numbers were flawed are

flawed but that doesn't mean that you know we shouldn't if they if the mission of the of the scouts is to raise boys to be good men and fathers and you know members of the community and partners why should that not apply to gain that just as much as straight joel in charleston south carolina. thanks for taking my call sure we have a minute left her job they say there's no big ideas i'll make this short i don't see why with all the flooding that we have in north dakota and minnesota every year with the flood waters to come up to canada that we don't take that water and start a pipeline system that rather than the our professors of the southwest colorado and the like that are totally dried out to put people to work immediately and i would have a long term effect of creating jobs and places where we could build houses and cities that we can't at this point there's no water and they would also. take care of the probably millions of dollars that we spent going up and down jol it's an interesting idea number one i don't think you'd want to recharge underground

aquifers with above ground water because one of the reasons that they're so pure the underground water so pure is that it's taken years in some cases thousands or even tens of thousands of years for the water to filter through the rock layer which filters it into the ah but you could use it for surface reservoirs and you know that's a possibility with that's how las vegas is there that's it for your take my take a live thank you for all your calls if we didn't get your call tonight my apologies check and check back with us next week. after the break summer of republicans across america i think that iran should be required reading in grade school and the children should have to pass iran rand comprehensive tests in order to graduate and take i'll tell you why it's so important that we don't let her philosophy of selfishness and billionaire and our money become part of our nation's teacher's lessons plans.

let me let me i want to know wouldn't let me ask you a question. here and this is what we have in the brain we have. the truth is this really just standing there together here in the situation we're being i think we can talk about the surveillance we. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm trying hard welcomes the big picture. wars you're going to. wipe out superman the radio guy for a minute. because you've never seen anything like this i'm told.

it's thursday let's get a geeky and getting in touch with your body listening to your heartbeat may help you to feel better about yourself and to be comfortable in the skin that you live in your own skin these findings presented in the journal plus one indicate that people who are able to hear their own heart beat are less likely to objectify themselves and subject themselves to objectification by society previous research has shown that a person's ability to hear their heartbeat is a strong measure of their awareness of their own body so the question becomes in listening to our heart beat and turn to. i mean more in touch with our body help us to deal with the culture of the teachers us to objectify and pay more attention to those through education what's on the outside rather than what's on the inside to

test this theory study authors as fifty females page nineteen to twenty six to sit quietly and count their heartbeats for three separate periods of twenty five thirty five and forty five seconds as the participants then answer the question air to assess what part of their body they value the most strength health or attractiveness the woman who could more accurately count their heartbeats or more likely to choose health or strength suggesting they were able to look at their bodies from the inside out and not worry about being objectified being defined by their appearance by themselves or by society but research still needs to be done to determine just how far reaching these findings could be it's safe to say that we should all use them help us deal with the pressures of everyday life as studies have shown that listening to your heartbeat can help you sense when you're becoming nervous or stressed out and in turn help to make

a job necessary adjustments needed to become call and relaxed again if you want to live a house happier healthier life and feel comfortable in your own skin sit down relax and start listening to your heart. is the good the bad of the very very large tip for asli the good senator bernie sanders senator bernie sanders introduced legislation today to cut off corporate tax breaks and loopholes corporate tax fairness act gets rid of the deferral a loophole that allows corporations to avoid paying taxes in the u.s. . as on any profits they make over see legislation also closes several other loopholes that allow corporations to pay an average twelve percent tax rate and

twenty eleven lowest in forty years we don't have a spending problem in america we have a revenue problem with billionaires and billionaire billion dollar corporations not paying their fair share in taxes kudo's senator bernie sanders taking up this issue . the bad republicans in north dakota several republican lawmakers are pushing a bill in north dakota that would require welfare recipients to pay the full costs of their drug tests before they can receive any public assistance where's the problem here is that welfare recipients don't have the money needed to pay for the fertile for awards drugs as due to begin with previous schemes have shown that welfare recipients use drugs less frequently than the normal population it's a non-issue the problem is the north dakota would rather see people go further into debt and despair and provide them with the help and assistance that they need to survive. and the very very ugly matthew harrison harrison is the president of the

christ the king lutheran church in newtown connecticut shortly after the newtown shooting tragedy reverend robert morris lutheran church participated in a vigil with leaders of other faiths but since that's against the rules of lutheran church that he is a member of he was reprimanded by his boss harrison and forced to issue an apology . to rowan encouraging the town to come together after on thinkable tragedy. harrison decided to punish his priests efforts to unite and comfort the people of newtown and that in addition to the bizarre it's very very . thirty years after her death iran's philosophy of selfishness and billionaire

empowerment rules the world and today the united states and other independent governments around the world are crumbling while iran's billionaires are taking over with each new so-called free trade agreement especially the very secretive trans-pacific partnership which has less to do with trade and more to do with a new law of global governance for transnational corporations each one of these iran's reviled state what we would call our democracy the united states of america is losing its power to billionaires and transnational corporations iran hated governments and democracy she considered them systems of what she called mob rule she grew up in russia as a child she watched the bolsheviks confiscated her father's pharmacy during the russian revolution likely suffering from p.t.s.d. from that incident iran devoted her future writings to evil government including

the evil of government functions like taxation regulation and providing social services to the poor or the sick in her mind she divide and in her writings she divided the world into makers and takers or what she called losers i one side of the billionaires the industrialists people like dagny taggart a railroad tycoon and reared in a steel magnate. over her fictional characters in her book atlas shrugged but both have real world counterparts in the form of the koch brothers the waltons and sheldon adelson. and there are the alice's holding up the world so an atlas shrugged when the billionaires tired of paying taxes and complying with government regulation and those billionaires went on strike iran wrote that the american economy promptly collapsed on the other side are the people who she calls the looters or everyone who isn't is rich or privileged or who believes in

a democratic government small d. to provide basic services and power labor unions regulate the economy according to iran they're the leeches of society and according to mitt romney with his forty seven percent comments and as she told mike wallace in one nine hundred fifty nine they do not even deserve love to our founding fathers looking out for the general welfare of the population was an explicit role of the government one of its most important and one of the reasons why our nation was created when we separated from britain but to iran and a government that taxed billionaires to help pay for health care and education for impoverished children it was not just on wise economically in her world it was also immoral. you know nature abhors a vacuum both in the wild and in politics so when people organized in the form of

a government are removed from power the money organized in the form of corporations and billionaires moves into the vacuum to take that power. which is exactly what's happening today all across the world. and thirty years after her death the united states crept closer and closer to iran's utopia reagan dramatically slashed taxes on the rich when after labor unions clinton deregulated financial markets for the rich ending welfare as we know it and committed our nation to one globalist corporate free trade agreement after another in under bush obama we've seen the rapid privatization of our commons the further erosion of social safety nets and more losses of national sovereignty with more so-called free trade agreements. and europe were seen sovereign governments neutered by conservative technocrats according to an rand the rich should never be asked to sacrifice so instead it's working people across the eurozone who have to pay for

the bad investments that the banks made in the run up to the global financial collapse as we saw in greece two thousand and eleven with the deposing of prime minister george papandreou and all across the state of michigan over the last few years of financial managers laws when small d. democratic governments are unwilling to do the bidding of the rich they're immediately replaced by corporate lackeys who will. the taggart's in the riordan's are holding the reins of government today which explains by why corporate america paid an average tax rate of just twelve percent in two thousand and eleven the lowest rate in over forty years explains why four hundred billionaires in america now own more wealth than one hundred fifty million other americans come by. and it explains why fewer impoverished americans are getting less federal

assistance than anytime in the last half century i and rand and vision a world without governments a world where the super rich are free to do as they wish you know we tried that during the so-called gilded age of the late nineteenth century before iran was alive if she watched the ruthlessness of the robber barons like she did the bolsheviks she might have reached different conclusions she may have realized that american presidents like teddy roosevelt franklin roosevelt dwight eisenhower were right when they made sure that wealth was more evenly distributed and the billionaire class was held in check. or she may have come to understand the corporations and billionaires owed their wealth to the state and not the other way around with favorable patent copyright laws a court system an educated workforce and an infrastructure to move goods around the country and no one would be able to get rich in america it would be like the libertarian paradise of somalia as harry moser the founder of the shoring

initiative argued in the economist corporations are not created by the shareholders or the management rather they're created by the state they're granted important privileges by the state limited liability turn to life etc they are granted these privileges because the state expects them to do something beneficial for the society that makes the grant they may well provide benefits to other societies but their main purpose is to provide benefits to the societies not to shareholders not to management but to the societies that create sadly this understanding of how democratic republic swor and why it's been lost this generation in iran's disciples are making sure the next generation never finds about it again idaho state senator john get it who chairs that state's education committee introduced a bill this week that would require all students to read iran's bill atlas shrugged before they can graduate good get a explained that the book made his son

a republican and that it certainly gives one a sense of personal responsibility. between stupidity like this and the rebirth of iran through corporate funded think tanks and hollywood movies the billionaire class wants to make sure that the next generation buy into a toxic ideology that's quite literally destroying the world as we know it. they don't want the twenty first century to be america's century they want to be the billionaire century and if they succeed then the middle class in america and throughout most of the developed world is going to go extinct. and that's the way it is thursday february seventh two thousand and thirteen and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag you're it occupy something else either.

there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent. i diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less h i think a lot less human suffering. let me let me one wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this network because we're having the debate we have our knives out. but if you feel the slightest about staying there again you're in a situation where it be an ideal way to talk about surveillance me. more

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